New jetBlue bids for Spirit thread
07-31-2022, 09:12 AM
#372
The REAL Bluedriver
Joined APC: Sep 2011
Position: Airbus Capt
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Originally Posted by symbian simian
Just finished reading the important sections of your CBA. Similar to ours, obviously room for improvement, but good things too.
Last edited by Bluedriver; 07-31-2022 at 09:43 AM.
07-31-2022, 09:20 AM
#373
SDQ Base Chief
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: 320 CA
Posts: 5,621
Originally Posted by Bluedriver
How do the end of trip/pairing footprint extensions compare? It's an underappreciated part of JetBlue's contract. Pays pretty well. If the company tries to take you outside your original pairing footprint with a schedule change. Some will say yeah but it doesn't happen very often, so we don't make them extra money that often... Which is the point, usually our trips end how they were supposed to end, maybe late, but usually on the original flight. That's not the case at Airlines without strong pairing footprint provisions, like AA, where their last day they regularly get reroutes and reschedules that take them well outside their original pairing footprint for no good pay.
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07-31-2022, 10:25 AM
#374
Line Holder
Joined APC: Feb 2016
Posts: 97
Originally Posted by Boomer
This. I’m hoping the Spirit MEC comes over here to take the reigns from CK on the whole deal.
07-31-2022, 10:38 AM
#375
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Joined APC: Nov 2011
Position: Admiral
Posts: 726
Originally Posted by DontCallMeCindy
For the Spirit folks on here, CK is our MEC Chair, who probably carries a lower approval rating from our pilot group than the CEO (which is pretty crazy for a unionized labor group!)
Not really something you want to hear about the person supposed to be representing the pilot group.
Though I'm pretty sure CK's days at the MEC are numbered.
07-31-2022, 11:50 AM
#376
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Joined APC: Sep 2014
Position: Da Bus, Left
Posts: 1,516
Originally Posted by Bluedriver
How do the end of trip/pairing footprint extensions compare? It's an underappreciated part of JetBlue's contract. Pays pretty well, If the company tries to take you outside your original pairing footprint with a schedule change. Some will say yeah but it doesn't happen very often, so we don't make them extra money that often... Which is the point, usually our trips end how they were supposed to end, maybe late, but usually on the original flight. That's not the case at Airlines without strong pairing footprint provisions, like AA, where their last day they regularly get reroutes and reschedules that take them well outside their original pairing footprint for no good pay.
08-01-2022, 06:37 PM
#377
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Originally Posted by DontCallMeCindy
For the Spirit folks on here, CK is our MEC Chair, who probably carries a lower approval rating from our pilot group than the CEO (which is pretty crazy for a unionized labor group!)
08-01-2022, 06:43 PM
#378
Covfefe
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Posts: 3,001
Originally Posted by Descendto450
This is a small sample group, he is well liked among the pilot group. He has made a few mistakes but he works hard for this pilot group. Three or four negative responses sure to follow but he got overwhelmingly voted back in for a reason.
08-01-2022, 08:04 PM
#379
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Originally Posted by Descendto450
This is a small sample group, he is well liked among the pilot group. He has made a few mistakes but he works hard for this pilot group. Three or four negative responses sure to follow but he got overwhelmingly voted back in for a reason.
08-01-2022, 08:27 PM
#380
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Originally Posted by Descendto450
This is a small sample group, he is well liked among the pilot group. He has made a few mistakes but he works hard for this pilot group. Three or four negative responses sure to follow but he got overwhelmingly voted back in for a reason.
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